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University of Pittsburgh. Duquesne University.
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Gerald Gerald William Barrax
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His poems appear in numerous anthologies and journals. In his role as a Professor of English in creative writing at North Carolina State University, Barrax strove to communicate integrity for the craft of poetry writing and passion for reading the best models of poetry. Barrax"s poetry enacts the contradictory and complex discourses motivating the tradition-bound and tradition-breaking impulses of contemporary African American poetry.
Barrax was born in Attalla, Alabama, on 21 June 1933.
Barrax spent his early years in the rural South and moved with his family to Pittsburgh in 1944. Barrax completed his primary and secondary education.
He began to write poetry when he was 18. Later, he completed a bachelor"s degree at Duquesne University.
Upon receipt of a master"s degree in English from the University of Pittsburgh in 1969, Barrax moved to North Carolina, where he studied and joined the faculty of North Carolina State University in Raleigh.
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Bridging the poetic radicalism and experimentalism of the 1960s to the lyrical and confessional modes of the 1980s, the poetry of Gerald William Barrax draws on the life of the poet as well as the state of African American experience for its intimate power.
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